Cutting firewood in the mountains

[The Dude]

Does anyone know what I'd need to do if I wanted to go cut already fallen trees up in the mountains with a chainsaw and loaded my truck up with the wood? Do I need some sort of permit? Does anyone else do this? If so, where do you go?

Being that I do most of my camping in the desert and wood can be typically sparse, we end up bringing our own. I'm either bringing scraps of lumber, or having to buy those bundles of wood at a rip-off price. I had an idea pop in my head that I could make an annual tradition in the fall to go somewhere and load up my truck and create a pile at my house for the stuff I do the following season.

Let me know if any of you know if this is legal/normal at all.

[Skylinerider]

Yup, you need a wood permit. they are pretty cheap, and you get them at the local F/S office.

[The Dude]

preferably somewhere close to SLC?

[packfish]

Call your local forestry office- they can tell you what you can do. Many times they are clearing out camp grounds ect and they will let you come in a take what you want for nada. Last year I picked up a lot of wood up Logan Canyon that was done like that.

[nelsonccc]

I used to go and cut my own wood bt i found i could go to Home Depot, but 'green' 2x4's. they are 1.20 a peice for 8'. they always have a buy a dozen type sale so i get a bunch, cut them into 2' peices, and let them dry out in the backyard. Way cheaper then paying the $15 Firewood permit and driving to the woods and back. I admit it's not as nice as throwing another log on the fire but with gas at $3.29 it'll be cheaper.

[accadacca]

My Dad and I used to cut in the mtns above Duchene. This was an area that they had sent the bull dozer's through and we could cut from the ground.

[Udink]

My Dad and I used to cut in the mtns above Duchene. This was an area that they had sent the bull dozer's through and we could cut from the ground.

I do the same thing around here. Find a fairly new gas well road (there's no shortage of them) and cut the pinion and juniper that they bulldozed to make the road/pipeline. There's no point in all that wood going to waste.